Ordinary Banana

@Meaningness oh I was just reading about the schisms among the Amish

@Meaningness based on trivial-seeming behaviors, schism in both right or left direction, clear right-left fertility gradient among sects

@literalbanana Higher fertility on right? (guessing.) Do you have a story about why?

@Meaningness yeah, more separation/insulation from status competition in the wider world

@Meaningness status competition is why education depressed fertility

@literalbanana yeah. have you collected emic accounts of this? ie looking what what people *said* about why they were having fewer children?

@literalbanana (they might not know, or be wrong, or be incentivized to distort, but still worth looking at probably?)

@literalbanana (sorry if stupid question and you have already addressed this in stuff you’ve written that I’ve forgotten)